Quick Guide to Working with Drosophila Part 2: Controlling Gene Expression in Flies with Gal4/UAS
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...more detailed level, the Gal4/UAS system is a transcription activation system co-opted from yeast (1). It...workhorse to turn genes on or off. Gal4 is a transcriptional activator that binds to UAS enhancer sequences...sequences found in DNA. It then recruits transcription machinery to the site to induce gene expression. Thus...reads “#” as a “pound symbol”.
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1. A. H. Brand, N. Perrimon, Targeted gene expression as a means...15262411.
4. T. D. Southall, D. A. Elliott, A. H. Brand, The GAL4 System : A Versatile Toolkit for Gene ...Lai, T. Lee, Genetic mosaic with dual binary transcriptional systems in Drosophila., Nat. Neurosci. 9, 703...The Q system: a repressible binary system for transgene expression, lineage tracing, and mosaic analysis...